Front and Rear Pocket Vents

I finished the Rear Vent as well. I know, it is not perfect and seems to be done by a kid, but It was my first attempt with glue and the little tiny strips! After this, I started to cut the thin strips for the Front Vent, glued and also did the bottom rectangle.









To draw the Radius I made this tool of what it left of the skins cuts to obtain the Radius because I still haven't receive my COM 8B Frame. :-).

First Coin Return

Today I finished the first Coin Return that I will use it in the rear. It's not perfect but is the first time doing this! I think when I paint it it will looks better.

Improvising

I used the styrene left from previous cutting to use it in the Pocket Vents. My first try was in the pocket that I will use it in the rear because the lower hole is bigger that blueprints due to my ignorance in cutting styrene.



Then I glued the thin strips (3mm) and seems to be ok, but not perfect!

More skin cutting

Today I finished cutting front and rear inner/outer skins, and rear panels. But I still have to cut some front inner/outer as I don't know yet how many doors there will be.






Also I did the Pocket Side Vents out from the outer front skin.



As some cuts seems to be made by a child and not by me, I decided to give to my R2D2 the dirty looking ;-)

Cutting skins out

Today I started to cut out Chani's Skins. Firt cut was the Front Outer skin, followed by the Rear Outer. But I still haven't receive James' COM 8B Frame so I will wait until I get it to continue cutting out the rest of the skins, to line them up with the frame. I'm thinking about making some front doors but not decided it yet.

I used a regular cutter. The first cut was the Coin Slot and it was awful, first experience cutting this kind of stuff, but after a while I found a better way to do it, smoothly, cutting all the way down on one side, marking with the cutter the other sides to rip the part off easily.

Front Outer



Rear Outer

Droid Automation Board.

On April 4th I received from Dan Stuettgen a Droid Automation Board! This is the first electronic thing of AR2-D2!! I'm Looking forward to reaching the electronics building, but now first things first. Keep reading and learning.